Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer
Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump,
now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of
Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump
told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her
husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New
Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's
speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of
1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist,"
Marie Brenner wrote.

Hitler was one of history's most prolific orators, building a genocidal Nazi
regime with speeches that bewitched audiences.

"He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people, for
whatever reason, became enamored with him," Professor Bruce
Loebs, who has taught a class called the Rhetoric of Hitler
and Churchill for the past 46 years at Idaho State University,
told Business Insider earlier this year.

"People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to
have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval."

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When Brenner asked Trump about how he came to possess Hitler's
speeches, "Trump hesitated" and then said, "Who told you that?"

"I don't remember," Brenner reportedly replied.

Trump then recalled, "Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from
Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew."

Brenner added that Davis did acknowledge that he gave Trump a
book about Hitler.

"But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler's speeches, not 'Mein Kampf,'"
Davis reportedly said. "I thought he would find it interesting. I
am his friend, but I'm not Jewish."

After Trump and Brenner changed topics, Trump returned to the
subject and reportedly said, "If, I had these speeches, and I am
not saying that I do, I would never read them."

In the Vanity Fair article, Ivana Trump told a friend that her
husband's cousin, John Walter "clicks his heels and says, 'Heil
Hitler," when visiting Trump's office.